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Archive for May, 2008
“Dual” Monitors on a Budget with Synergy
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Utilities | 2 Comments »
Recently I got a new machine at work, and managed to keep my old LCD. I have to say, having two monitors has really increased my productivity. (Check out ... Read more..Adobe Acrobat Pro No Longer Required
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Utilities | 1 Comment »
Today I needed to print my resume (a Word document) to PDF. I don't normally create a lot of PDFs, so I haven't had a need to buy Adobe ... Read more..Password Overflow? Check Out KeePass
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Utilities | No Comments »
I don't know about you, but I have a lot of passwords. All counted, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if I have over 100 username/password combinations. Email, ... Read more..Java Installation Pains
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »
A few days ago I wanted to try out a Java-based program. I've used Java in the past, but really haven't been a fan. I can get around, ... Read more..Switched to Feedburner
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Server | No Comments »
I just ran across this great post about how to configure Wordpress to publish your RSS feed through Feedburner. There is even a Wordpress Plugin to configure your Feedburner URL. Pretty sweet. Read more..A Queued BackgroundWorker Using Generic Delegates
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 18 Comments »
EDIT: Oops, sorry for the typo in the title. I meant "generic delegates", not "anonymous delegates". :) Last week I wrote a post about using a generic wrapper around ... Read more..LINQ Extension Method Potpourri
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 3 Comments »
One of the most useful things about the new C# 3.0 language features is the ability to create "extension methods". These methods have the curious property that They must be static They must ... Read more..Unit Testing and Code Coverage – A Powerful Duo
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »
I'm a big fan of using unit tests during the development process to facilitate writing code. In fact, I like writing my unit tests at the same time that ... Read more..Digging Into the .NET Framework Code
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »
Every developer has had one of those head-scratching moments while debugging a particularly problematic section of code and thought "I really wish I could see exactly what is going on ... Read more..A Type-safe BackgroundWorker Wrapper
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 18 Comments »
Not too long ago I created a type-safe implementation of the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem method that has proved quite useful to spawn off a long-running process to a new thread. This ... Read more..